Synonyms of the word

resistant

• n. A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
• n. A thing which resists.
• adj. Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
• adj. Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature,…
• adj. (statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.

defiant

• adj. defying.
• adj. Boldly resisting opposition.

immune

• adj. (usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to.
• adj. (medicine, usually with "to") Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
• adj. (by extension) Not vulnerable.
• adj. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the immune system.
• n. (epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease.
• v. (rare, transitive) To make immune.

imperviable

• adj. impervious.

impervious

• adj. Unaffected or unable to be affected by.
• adj. Preventive of any penetration; impenetrable, impermeable, particularly of water.
• adj. Immune to damage or effect.

insubordinate

• adj. Rebellious or defiant to authority.
• adj. Contumacious.

insusceptible

• adj. Not susceptible.

nonabsorbent

• adj. Not absorbent; unable to absorb.

nonabsorptive

• adj. Not absorptive.

noncompliant

• adj. Not compliant; rebellious.
• n. One who fails to comply, for example with a law.

repellent

• adj. tending or able to repel; driving back.
• adj. repulsive, inspiring aversion.
• adj. resistant or impervious to something.
• n. someone who repels.
• n. a substance used to repel insects.
• n. a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.

resistive

• adj. (physics) Resisting the passage of electrical current.
• adj. Tending to resist.

tolerable

• adj. Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable.
• adj. Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so.
• adj. Such as to be tolerated or countenanced; permissible; allowable.
• adj. In fair health; passably well.
• adv. (dialect) tolerably; passably; moderately.

tolerant

• adj. tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.
• adj. tending to withstand or survive.

unsusceptible

• adj. Not susceptible.